Ecology Quotes

There is something fundamentally wrong with treating the earth as if it were a business in liquidation.

Herman Daly

It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.

René Dubos

Wildness is the preservation of the World.

Henry David Thoreau

You didn't come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.

Alan Watts

A Healthy Ecology is the Basis for a Healthy Economy.

Claudine Schneider

Man talks of a battle with Nature, forgetting that if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side.

E. F. Schumacher

The conservationist's most Important task, if we are to save the earth, is to educate.

Peter Scott

EARTH DAY reminds the people of the world of the need for continuing care which is vital to Earth’s safety.

Margaret Mead

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment

Margaret Mead

We need a new environmental consciousness on a global basis. To do this, we need to educate people.

Mikhail Gorbachev

If a product is more expensive than another one, and more sustainable in ecology, consumers will not buy it.

Jean Claude

The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it

Chinese Proverb

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

Carl Sagan

The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children.

Paul R. Ehrlich

They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.

James G. Watt